President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that he expects more caravans of Central American migrants and asylum seekers to emerge, but he sees the phenomenon which became a political...
January 31, 2020
Greece is stepping up security on its porous land border with Turkey, used by thousands of migrants to clandestinely enter Europe, with extra guards supported by a network of powerful...
January 31, 2020
The European Union's top diplomat said Friday there is no clash with the United States over the two powers' parallel efforts to bring Serbia and Kosovo back to the negotiating...
January 31, 2020
Iraq's most powerful religious figure Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani reiterated Friday his condemnation of the use of force against anti-government protesters as the mass movement enters a critical juncture and...
January 31, 2020
The holiday was over for almost 80 Chinese visitors to Thailand. They were lining up at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport to catch a flight home -- to Wuhan, their hometown and...
January 31, 2020
A 12-year-old girl died this week in southern Egypt after her parents brought her to a doctor who performed female genital mutilation, a criminal practice that remains widespread in the...
January 31, 2020
A children's advocacy group warned Friday that nearly half of nearly 400,000 displaced in the Syrian government's two-month-long offensive on the country's last rebel-held region are children, calling it a...
January 31, 2020
Pope Francis chatted privately at the Vatican with the president of his native country, Argentina, on Friday. President Alberto Fernandez and Francis, the first pope from Latin America, spoke for...
January 31, 2020
An Afghan official says an explosion Friday in western Kabul has killed two people and wounded one. Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz says explosives were hidden in a cart and...
January 31, 2020
Some Americans plan to leave China after the U.S. government advised about a spreading virus outbreak, but many others are staying. The State Department issued a travel advisory Friday saying...
January 31, 2020
The Australian capital region declared a state of emergency on Friday because of an out-of-control forest fire burning erratically to its south. It's the first fire emergency for the Australian...
January 31, 2020
As the United Kingdom prepared to bring to an end its 47-year EU membership, the bloc's top officials on Friday pledged to continue playing a prominent role “in the ever-louder...
January 31, 2020
The Berlin International Film Festival has suspended a prize named for its founding director after a German newspaper reported that he was a senior figure in the Nazis' moviemaking bureaucracy....
January 31, 2020
Authorities in Mauritania have arrested 10 men after a video appeared on social media of a gay couple appearing to take part in a traditional wedding ceremony, human rights groups...
January 31, 2020
A gas explosion at a factory in Russia on Friday killed five people and injured three more, emergency officials said. The explosion occurred in Russia's central Oryol region, causing an...
January 31, 2020
One tunneling from France, the other digging from Britain, the two men smashed with pummeling jackhammers through the last slivers of rock separating their nations. Through the newly created hole,...
January 31, 2020
The European Union's top court announced Friday that it cannot rule on a decades old border dispute between member countries Slovenia and Croatia because the row falls under international law...
January 31, 2020
When Gao Fei warned members of his family about the deadly virus sweeping their way, he never suspected that they would laugh at him, or that he would end up...
January 31, 2020
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened a visit to Ukraine on Friday facing a delicate balancing act as he tries to boost ties with a critical ally at the...
January 31, 2020
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left the White House after the unveiling of President Donald Trump's Mideast plan, which hugely favors Israel, he and his entourage could barely contain...
January 31, 2020
Afghanistan will need vast amounts of foreign funding to keep its government afloat through 2024, a U.S. agency said Friday, even as foreign donors are increasingly angry over the cost...
January 31, 2020
The Israeli military said on Friday that it launched “wide-scale” airstrikes on militant targets in the Gaza Strip shortly after Palestinian militants fired three rockets into Israel, two of which...
January 31, 2020
Authorities rescued 23 children after killing a man who held them hostage for nearly 11 hours after inviting them to his home for his daughter's birthday party in northern India,...
January 31, 2020
A Belgian court on Friday has acquitted three doctors of charges of manslaughter by poison in a case that has been seen as a key test of Belgium's euthanasia laws....
January 31, 2020
The Japanese Foreign Ministry is urging its citizens not to travel to China because of the possibility of the further spread of a new virus. Japan had previously warned people...
January 31, 2020
India's security forces early Friday killed three insurgents in an exchange of gunfire on a highway in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The encounter occurred early Friday after the police signaled a truck...
January 31, 2020
China's foreign ministry said Friday it will send charter flights to bring home residents of virus-afflicted region from overseas. The one-sentence statement gave few details, but said those from Hubei...
January 31, 2020
The Chinese Football Association has announced that all domestic matches of the 2020 season will be postponed in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus that has now...
January 31, 2020
The Latest on the outbreak of a new virus from China (all times local): 10:20 a.m. Japan and South Korea have sent planes to fly back home more of their...
January 31, 2020
Relatives of an anti-logging activist who was found dead don't know whether he was slain or died accidentally, but they said Thursday that they are sure of one thing: Something...
January 31, 2020
China is reporting 9,692 confirmed cases of a new virus with a death toll of 213, as the World Health Organization declared the outbreak that has spread to more than...
January 31, 2020
For nearly six years, Tomas Vale Valdivia was one of the leaders behind an alien smuggling conspiracy that transported more than 100 Cuban nationals to Mexico and then into the...
January 31, 2020
The U.N. Security Council called Thursday for an immediate end to a “significant” escalation in fighting in Yemen between Houthi Shiite rebels and the Saudi-led military coalition supporting the government....
January 30, 2020
Investigators in the case of three sisters accused of killing their abusive father have been ordered by Russia's Prosecutor General's office to drop the murder charge against them and instead...
January 30, 2020
Some 80 armed men attacked an indigenous community on Nicaragua's northern Caribbean coast, killing several people, authorities said Thursday. Local leaders said there were six dead, while police said two...
January 30, 2020
An important financial operator for the Sinaloa Cartel and two other inmates facing extradition to the United States who escaped from a Mexico City prison were driven out of the...
January 30, 2020
A U.S. law firm that was hired for $12.5 million by a top ally of Nicolás Maduro has decided to quickly dump the controversial Venezuelan client amid a major outcry...
January 30, 2020
The World Health Organization has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a “global health emergency.” The announcement on Jan. 30 reverses an earlier decision by the organization to hold off on...
January 30, 2020
Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who has spent much of his 93 years working to forge a united Europe, is remarkably blasé about Brexit. Barely 24 hours before Britain...
January 30, 2020
Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who has spent much of his 93 years working to forge a united Europe, is remarkably blasé about Brexit. Barely 24 hours before Britain...
